WHY WELLNESS COACHING WORKS?

Wellness coaching is a combination of health and emotional coaching and helps bridge the gap between what people say they want and what they actually do.

Wellness coaching is a partnership with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process. It is a vehicle for helping people to achieve a higher level of well-being and performance in life and work, particularly when change is hard. Coaches believe every client has the potential to be creative and resourceful in order to fully self-actualize. It is a growth-promoting relationship that elicits autonomous motivation, increases the capacity to change, and facilitates a change process through visioning, goal setting, and accountability, which at its best leads to sustainable change for the good. Coaching is an additive that clarifies direction and destination, unleashes potential and resources, accelerates progress, removes obstacles, and builds bridges. It encourages self-discovery, provides guidance for the client to generate strategies and solutions, and reinforces client responsibility, while focusing on strengths based action.

Wellness coaching creates an environment where clients stay positive and charged up, helping people develop potentials that are already present, but not yet fully manifested, using a clearly defined process throughout the interaction. Coaching focuses less on finding out what the problem is. The focus in coaching is on what the client wants and how they realize it by using what they already have or what is already working. It makes it harder, not easier, to change when the focus is on what’s wrong and what’s not working. By focusing on the future, clients can concentrate on what can be achieved tomorrow, rather than what they did not achieve yesterday.

In the process of wellness coaching, setting goals is one of the best ways in which to enhance the client’s learning. The direction of their life will probably be clear, and they will be focused. Identifying clear goals helps minimize wasting time and energy on little things that sap people drive and initiative.

Goals that are not backed up with a realistic action plan are never attained. Creating a plan of action for each goal helps promote active self-exploration and, thus, defines opportunities for future growth. The positive act of defining actions also helps promote confidence. The key is to enable people to take small successive actions that with adequate support and encouragement over a consistent period of time build momentum. Action fuels insight, so when clients take action, they have real data to learn from.

Here Coaches work to ensure that clients follow through on their commitment to a better life and make them accountable for their actions. As clients feel more accountable when they work with a coach, they are able to achieve much more than what they thought they could achieve.

Wellness coaches have expertise in listening to what the client really wants, asking questions to clarify their thinking, and helping them establish what they want to accomplish. By enabling non-judgmental change for the better, coaches help people grow into the person that they wish to be. This, in turn, leads to greater happiness and fulfillment.

Exceptional wellness coaches are trained to ask key questions that help unlock clients potential and offer clues to their inner motivation and beliefs. The questioning process helps determine the right action plans that will promote goal achievement and fulfillment. Therefore, questioning is the premier coaching skill. Awareness occurs through asking focused questions that direct the client’s attention to finding the resources and answers. It is more about asking the right questions than providing answers. It is about eliciting from the client his or her best solution.

A wellness coach is able to facilitate change, by integrating the client’s values, visions, goals, and desires, by helping them bring out the best of themselves. The process promotes sustainable behavioral change, by highlighting their unique skills, strengths, and resources, and then help them transform their dreams into achievable objectives.
A Wellness coach will help clients reach optimal physical, mental and emotional wellbeing and it includes different aspects, such as nutrition, stress, weight loss, and health. Wellness coaching helps put people in charge of their own health and wellbeing.